Christiane Soeder

Christiane Soeder

Christiane Soeder in September 2008
To person
Date of birth	15th January 1975 (age 45)
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
Driver type	Time trial woman
Team (s)
2002-2004 2005-2007 2008 2009	Team UNIQA GRAZ Univega Pro Cycling Team Cervelo-Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team Cervélo Test team
Most important successes
3rd place individual time trial road world championship 2007 2nd place individual time trial road world championship 2008 stage victories Grande Boucle Féminine 2004, 2005 and 2008, overall victory Grande Boucle Féminine 2008- 2nd overall ranking 2009 state champion individual time trial 2004 to 2010 and 2012 state champion road 2004 to 2009 state champion criterion 2008
Last updated: May 21, 2019

Christiane Soeder-Richter (born January 15, 1975 in Remscheid , Germany as Christiane Sonder ) is a former Austrian cyclist of German origin. She is German Duathlon Champion (1999, 2000 and 2001), Duathlon Vice European Champion (2001) and multiple Austrian National Champion (2004–2012).

Career

Christiane Soeder began her athletic career as a track and field athlete and was successful in the duathlon : three times German champion (1999, 2000, 2001), fifth place in the world championships in America (1999), third place in the world championships short distance (2000) and long distance (2001).

Vice European Champion Duathlon 2001

In 2000 she won the ETU European Duathlon Cup and in 2001 she became Duathlon Vice-European Champion.

Since 2002 Soeder rode exclusively in cycling with Team Unica Graz and from 2005 to 2009 also with the Univega Pro Cycling Team (later names: Cervélo-Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team and Cervélo Test Team ).

3rd place UCI Road World Championships 2007

She was one of the best time trialists in the world and has been the most successful Austrian cyclist since her third place at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart .

In June 2008 she won the Grande Boucle Féminine - the counterpart to the men's Tour de France . The following year she came second here. In 2009 she ended her sporting career.

State championship individual time trial 2012

In 2012 she returned to competition after a baby break and in May she was able to win the state championship in the individual time trial again. It has not appeared internationally since 2012.

Soeder works as a doctor and lives in Vienna . In 2007, she and her sister Stefanie Mollnhauer (sports doctor and performance diagnostician ) published a specialist book on women's cycling . Christiane Soeder is married to Bernhard Richter , a former national champion in middle distance running. Their second son was born in February 2014.

Awards

• In 2007, she was the first woman to Austrian cyclist of the year was chosen
• In 2008 Christiane Soeder was awarded the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria for her achievements .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Christiane Soeder (2008)

2003

• Stage win International Thuringia Tour of Women

2004

• Stage win Grande Boucle Féminine (Tour de France women)

2005

• Stage win Tour de l'Aude

2006

• Stage win Geelong Tour

2007

• 2. Individual time trial souvenir Magali Pache

2008

• Geelong Tour overall and stage victory.
• GP Suisse - Souvenir de Magali Pache

2009

• GP Suisse Féminin
• Stage win Thuringia round trip for women
• Open de Suède Vårgårda team time trial
• GP Oberbaselbiet
• 2 stage victories at the Tour de l'Ardèche

2010

• Mountain championship, road, elite, Austria

Awards (excerpt)

• 2008: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria

literature

• Christiane Soeder and Stefanie Mollnhauer: Women's cycling. The workshop, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-89533-559-2

Web links

Commons : Christiane Soeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christiane Soeder in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile and results of Christiane Soeder in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 21, 2019 (English).
• Christiane Soeder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dr. Christiane Soeder
• Literature by and about Christiane Soeder in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cover text of the book
2. ↑ Vice World Champion Christiane Soeder gave birth to healthy son David (February 24, 2014)
3. ↑ Soeder and Zoidl state champions in the time trial (May 17, 2012)
4. ↑ Soeder secures time trial state championship (September 19, 2010)
5. ↑ Kohl, Soeder, Luttenberger - Austria's National Champion 2006 (June 25, 2006)
6. ↑ Duathlon World Championships: Christiane Soeder wins bronze ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )